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Brookline, 1 January, 1817.
Rev. and Dear Sir,
I now make a direct applica-
tion to your daughter Adeline to instruct our
young misses, this season; and I will thank
you to propose it to her with your best advice,
and return an answer, as soon as it can be decid-
ed.
We have already ascertained, that 20 in
this town will be desirous of entering the Acad-
emy, if she will undertake its instruction. Prob-
bly more will offer themselves. Those, I have
mentioned, are exclusive of our Bostonians.
Mr. Samuel Hammond, who comes out in
April, yesterday told me, that he should wish
to send two; and Mr. Thomas W. Sumner, who
expects to spend the summer with us, has
two more. Mr. Thomas Perkins will unques-
tionably desire to send one. A woman in Rox-
bury told me, the other evening, that 4 or 5
would offer themselves from her neighborhood.
Indeed there is in my mind no doubt, that | (seq. 61)[fol. 1v]
Brookline, 1 January, 1817.
Rev. and Dear Sir,
I now make a direct applica-
tion to your daughter Adeline to instruct our
young misses, this season; and I will thank
you to propose it to her with your best advice,
and return an answer, as soon as it can be decid-
ed.
We have already ascertained, that 20 in
this town will be desirous of entering the Acad-
emy, if she will undertake its instruction. Prob-
bly more will offer themselves. Those, I have
mentioned, are exclusive of our Bostonians.
Mr. Samuel Hammond, who comes out in
April, yesterday told me, that he should wish
to send two; and Mr. Thomas W. Sumner, who
expects to spend the summer with us, has
two more. Mr. Thomas Perkins will unques-
tionably desire to send one. A woman in Rox-
bury told me, the other evening, that 4 or 5
would offer themselves from her neighborhood.
Indeed there is in my mind no doubt, that |
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